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ToraToraTora

Get Ready For Mortgage Rate Hikes.....

https://news.sky.com/story/millions-of-public-sector-workers-should-get-5-5-pay-rise-ministers-reportedly-told-13181805 Above inflation payrises = higher inflation = higher interest rates. I assume... ...

Khandro

Britain's New Foreign Secretary

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/07/18/uk-foreign-secretary-lammy-refuses-to-apologise-for-branding-trump-a-neo-nazi-sympathising-sociopath/ Is he a good choice? ...

douglas9401

Oh Donald

Trump continues to enthral the bewildered with half truths and downright lies in his quest for sainthood. He didn't 'take a bullet', he dodged a bullet, almighty god didn't save him, a poor shooter... ...

Khandro

How Is Starmer Doing So Far?

..and for the future? Dan gives opinion here; https://archive.ph/fZ9AN ...

Untitled

Icj Rules Occupation Of Palestine Illegal

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2x05n7m3xet
the ICJ has ruled that the occupation of gaza, the west bank, and the golan heights by Israel is illegal and has ordered that country to end these... ...

Ken4155

R I P Ray Reardon

Snooker legend Ray Reardon has died aged 91. Not the most exciting player to watch, but one of the very best, nonetheless.

naomi24

Labour To Fast Track 90,000 Asylum Claims

//Of the 90,000 told they could be put on deportation flights, about 60,000 are predicted to have their claims accepted. Some of the Rwanda cohort had taken challenges to the High Court and were... ...

barney15c

Is Crowdstrike Financially Liable For The Worldwide It Outage Today?

Is Crowdstrike financially liable for the disruption they have caused with their broken update which clearly was not tested thoroughly enough.

sandyRoe

When Saddam Hussein Invaded Kuwait Back In The 90S...

...there was an alliance of the willing prepared to throw him out. When Israeli slowly eats away, like a cancer, at the Palestinian land on the West Bank, those same defenders of liberty sit on... ...

johnny.5

Saying It In A Language That They Understand

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ced3z8kx9eqo but still lost his job and where were the teachers during this ? ...

naomi24

Keir Starmer Opens Door To Processing Asylum Claims Outside Uk

https://www.ft.com/content/4566173e-e99d-4a3e-8394-163d796b262e Isn't that exactly what the Conservatives had in mind - the plan that Starmer ditched immediately he took office? Having raised... ...

Hazlinny

Global It Outage

Is this affecting you? https://news.stv.tv/scotland/global-it-outage-hits-banks-airlines-and-media-outlets ...

ToraToraTora

How To Stop The Boats.....

https://news.sky.com/story/uk-to-fund-84m-health-and-education-projects-in-africa-and-middle-east-in-bid-to-stop-illegal-migration-pm-says-13180416 How is giving the Africans £84m going to help?... ...

fender62

Leeds Riot

social worker tried to remove children from family for their own safety, i read somewhere a child was thrown out of a window by a parent ? result locals go nuts when people come to help said ... ...

Clone

Riot

First of many? https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/leeds-chaos-police-car-overturned/ ...

Madgeorge

Covid

Will all the various countrywide emergency planning officers and staff please admit they were useless and form an orderly queue to repay their telephone number salaries?

New Judge

About Time?

Five Just Stop Oil protesters have been jailed for four and five years each for causing huge disruption on the M25 in November 2022. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c880xjx54mpo They have been... ...

douglas9401